Actually you can.
You can walk, lite candles, get a wood stove, get an "ice-box", grow a "victory-over-fuel" garden in your back yard, and a zillion other things.
You CAN.
Whether or not you WANT to, is your choice and not a "strawman", to essential economics.
You would still have to buy gasoline if you did those things. You would just buy less of it. Every American is forced to buy gasoline.